Fear & sickness. The gig was up, time to pay. She was experiencing all kinds of issues at once. Kuru is a very rare disease. It is caused by an infectious protein (prion) found in contaminated human brain tissue. Kuru is found among people from New Guinea who practiced a form of cannibalism in which they ate the brains of dead people as part of a funeral ritual.

Personally, while Kuru is completely plausible, she doesn’t start stumbling until the SUV door opens. I
beleve now that she was simply digging her heels in (literally) and resisting arrest. I also believe she saw someone in that van that she believed to be dead. Hers is a hanging I’d pay my life savings to witness